OpenAI
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OpenAI currently holds a 4.4 Blind rating from 82 reviews. Core product: Imported from companies. Strongest marks: compensation and career growth. Recent pulse: 4.4 from 10 reviews in the last 60 days.
- Overall
- 2.36 Amazons
- Recent 60d (10)
- 3.39 Amazons
- Perception
- 1.82 Amazons
- Recent delta
- +1.03 Amazons
- Perception delta
- -0.54 Amazons
- Reviews
- 82
- Perception votes
- 15
- Last updated
- May 30, 2026
- Status
- Unknown
Distribution
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Score
2.36 Amazons
Percentile
98th
Companies
221
Peak bin
39
Metric breakdown
Overall rating
Default leaderboard sort, based on the company's Blind score.
Recent 60 days
Average across reviews from the last 60 days, using up to 10 of the latest stored review cards.
Career growth
How employees rate long-term advancement and trajectory.
Compensation / Benefits
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Management
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Work life balance
The balance score used when sorting for sustainability.
Company culture
How employees rate the day-to-day environment and team culture.
Public perception
Elo score
1573
Confidence band
+- 119
Public record
12W / 3L
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Latest review list
10 reviews from the last 60 days
1. May 27, 2026
Fast paced but fun
5.0Current Employee / Software Engineer
Pros: Working closely on frontier AI, ability to shape the future, smart coworkers, great benefits
Cons: Can be a bit chaotic with project and org changes, some politics
2. May 27, 2026
Challenging work but not for everybody
5.0Current Employee / Senior MTS Engineer
Pros: People doing meaningful work, tons of ownership, technically challenging. Pay is good.
Cons: Competition in the industry is very intense, pace js fast, a lot of pressure, forget about WLB.
3. May 27, 2026
Great career growth
4.0Current Employee / Software Engineer
Pros: Strong co-workers, and lots of room / area for growth
Cons: WLB is non-existent and everyone is working really hard. Have to really stand out
4. May 11, 2026
For once, i look forward to going to work
5.0Current Employee / Program Manager
Pros: The work is meaningful and the people are truly the best in the business
Cons: Work life balance is tough but doable. Lots of cooks in the kitchen
5. May 7, 2026
Best company out there
5.0Current Employee / MTS Engineer
Pros: Amazing career growth + great comps. Talented people and exciting work.
Cons: WLB. Not necessary grinding but you cannot live easy here.
6. May 7, 2026
Shaping the future of our world, but intense
5.0Current Employee / Engineer
Pros: Codex Developer Focused High talent density Fun quirky vibes Pretty open communication
Cons: Fairly big already Pretty intense workload OpenAI gets most of the anti-ai rhetoric compared to other labs
7. May 7, 2026
Not what it used to be
4.0Current Employee / Software Engineer
Pros: Fairly interesting work, great talent density, fantastic food and office.
Cons: Comp isn't what it used to be given current valuation. Teams lack communication, which makes the ever-shifting priorities extremely difficult to manage. Massive entitlement culture with folks complaining about anything / expecting the co...
8. April 27, 2026
Terrible work life balance, everyone thinks they are a main character
1.0Current Employee / Senior Software Engineering
Pros: Great compensation, generally pretty free to work on what you feel is important.
Cons: Absolutely awful culture. People are regularly fired with zero notice for made up or trivial reasons. Multiple people on my team had this happen to them. It destroys team morale. Nearly all of the engineers think they are the main charac...
9. May 6, 2026
Lots of talents, amazing mission
5.0Current Employee / Software Engineer
Pros: Tons of smart people, great compensation, lots of challenging work
Cons: Terrible wlb, management can be full of chaos. Move super fast, but may lack of career growth bc your manager won’t care
10. April 16, 2026
Amazing place to work, learn, and have impact
5.0Current Employee / Technical Staff
Pros: The compensation is excellent, and the work is genuinely at the forefront of technology. You get to collaborate with exceptionally talented people, with plenty of opportunities to grow and take ownership. In my org, there is a strong sen...
Cons: Work-life balance can be mixed. My org tends to be better than some others, but it is not unusual for people to work late.